Gmail : The Spam Killer
To the right is a screenshot of one of my Gmail account.
Amazing, 580 inbox email, and 145,000+ SPAM ! 
This amount of spam was used to be handled by my server. Now it happily forward them to Gmail, which then will filter the spam with its powerful spam filter.
I remember when my customers are complaining about slow Internet access. My first question is whether they hosted their email servers internally. When they answered yes, I did a quick check, then asked them to either host the mailserver externally, or use Google Apps email service.
Usually they will instantly enjoy a significant speed boost to their Internet access.
There are simply too much spam nowadays for our puny bandwidth to handle. I know of big companies here in Indonesia with only 256 Kbps internet access, shared with their 300 employees (yay). And they’re paying US$ 1400 / month (you read it right) for that…
Thankfully, Gmail comes to the rescue.
Thank you Google !
May 16th, 2008 11:41
rich man technology for poor people
currently I also operate my corporate mail under free services of google… so I can pay my engineer a litle bit higher (due to the BBM issue)… hehehe…
May 16th, 2008 12:14
It’s just the spam tho. What I concerned more is the bandwidth wasted with the forwarded email (send this to all of your friends), forwarded scam and loooong email with lots of previously written comment not erased (usually mailing list).
Good email habit is rare in Indonesian so-called digital people.
May 19th, 2008 20:43
I dont think spam will ever stop, but a least its in your spam folder and not your inbox
May 20th, 2008 12:09
spam ampe 146rebu??
ckckckc…
weladalah..
gugel emang manstab..
May 20th, 2008 14:45
hi.. me PR3.. link me and buzz me.. i ll link u back.. i have one more site.. http://abisheks.blogspot.com.. please link this also..
May 23rd, 2008 09:25
wah, kang harry kolektor spam ya? ha3.
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tapi sebenarnya ada yg aneh dg spam filtering di gmail… email saya yg di yahoo lbh byk terdaftar di website&milis2 tp spam yg masuk gak begitu banyak… ini gmail yg jarang dipakai malah spam yg diblok banyak banget… mungkinkah hny permainan google???